The capital city.
Cargo was often piled as high as possible...
... as were passengers.
One could find just about anything on the extremely dusty roads.
At a "gas station", a girl fills the tank used a tall stool, a plastic container and a syphon.
Fresh food was piled high at the local market.
One could often smell the meat stands before even seeing them.
The Killing Fields were the result of the Khmer Rouge, a Communist movement
that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. While in power, the Khmer Rouge
killed close to 1.7 million Cambodians (more than one-fifth of the country’s population).
Tuol Sleng, a former school in Phnom Pehn, was used as prison where Cambodians
were interrogated, tortured and murdered.
Prisoners were chained and tortured on these cots.
Choeung Ek is just one of thousands of killing fields where the Khmer Rouge
killed and buried prisoners. A memorial building, filled with some 8,000 skulls, stands
next to some of the excavated graves.
Skulls of the victims, pulled from the mass graves. They were sorted by age and gender.
Bone fragments and shards of clothing could still be seen protruding from the ground.